| whiteside | <zoology> The golden-eye. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| whitetail | 1. <zoology> The Virginia deer. 2. <zoology> The wheatear. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whitethorn | <botany> The hawthorn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whitethroat | <zoology> Any one of several species of Old World warblers, especially. The common European species (Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler (S. Hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat (S. Curruca). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whitetop | <botany> Fiorin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whitewall | <zoology> The spotted flycatcher; so called from the white colour of the under parts. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whitewash | 1. Any wash or liquid composition for whitening something, as a wash for making the skin fair. 2. A composition of line and water, or of whiting size, and water, or the like, used for whitening walls, ceilings, etc.; milk of lime. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whiteweed | <botany> A perennial composite herb (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum) with conspicuous white rays and a yellow disk, a common weed in grass lands and pastures. Synonym: oxeye daisy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whitewing | <zoology> The chaffinch; so called from the white bands on the wing. The velvet duck. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whitewood | The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc. Several other kinds of light-coloured wood are called whitewood in various countries, as the wood of Bignonia leucoxylon in the West Indies, of Pittosporum bicolour in Tasmania, etc. Whitewood bark. See the Note under Canella. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whitewort | <botany> Wild camomile. A kind of Solomon's seal (Polygonum officinale). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whither | 1. To what place; used interrogatively; as, whither goest thou? "Whider may I flee?" "Sir Valentine, whither away so fast?" (Shak) 2. To what or which place; used relatively. "That no man should know . . . Whither that he went." (Chaucer) "We came unto the land whither thou sentest us." (Num. Xiii. 27) 3. To what point, degree, end, conclusion, or design; whereunto; whereto; used in a sense not physical. "Nor have I . . . Whither to appeal." (Milton) Any whither, to any place; anywhere. "Any whither, in hope of life eternal." . No whither, to no place; nowhere. Synonym: Where. Whither, Where. Whither properly implies motion to place, and where rest in a place. Whither is now, however, to a great extent, obsolete, except in poetry, or in compositions of a grave and serious character and in language where precision is required. Where has taken its place, as in the question, "Where are you going?" Origin: OE. Whider. AS. Hwider; akin to E. Where, who; cf. Goth. Hvadre whither. See Who, and cf. Hither, Thither. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whitile | <zoology> The yaffle. Origin: Perhaps properly, the cutter (see Whittle,), or cf. Whitewall, witwal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whiting | 1. <zoology> A common European food fish (Melangus vulgaris) of the Codfish family; called also fittin. A North American fish (Merlucius vulgaris) allied to the preceding; called also silver hake. Any one of several species of North American marine sciaenoid food fishes belonging to genus Menticirrhus, especially M. Americanus, found from Maryland to Brazil, and M. Littoralis, common from Virginia to Texas; called also silver whiting, and surf whiting. Various other fishes are locally called whiting, as the kingfish, the sailor's choice, the Pacific tomcod, and certain species of lake whitefishes. 2. Chalk prepared in an impalpable powder by pulverizing and repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in putty, for cleaning silver, etc. Whiting pollack. <zoology> The bib. Origin: From White. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whiting-mop | 1. <zoology> A young whiting. 2. A fair lass. "This pretty whiting-mop." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| white matter |
Areas in the brain and spinal cord that consist of myelinated nerve cells (neurones). Myelinated nerve cells are those in which their long thread-like extensions (axons) are covered in a layer of white, fatty, insulating material called myelin.
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| white coat hypertension |
Blood pressure that is elevated in the doctor's office but normal outside of the doctor's office.
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| whorl |
in plants, having leaves arranged in a circle around a single point of a stem; in animals, a pattern of hair growth often referred to as a "cow lick"
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| white blood cell |
WBC. A type of cell in the immune system that helps the body fight infection and disease. White blood cells include lymphocytes, granulocytes, macrophages, and others.
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| white matter |
Bundles of myelinated nerve fibers or axons. These nerve fibers have a creamy white appearance due to myelin, a whitish substance that primarily contains fats and proteins. Myelin forms a protective, insulating sheath around certain axons, functioning as an electrical insulator and ensuring efficient nerve conduction. ...
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| WH | to what place, purpose, or end |
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| WH | to which |
| WH | to or unto which |
| WH | to or unto which |
| WH | in consequence of which |
| WH | upon which |
| WH | closely following and in consequence of which |
| WH | in or at or to what place |
| WH | out of, or by means of which |
| WH | the necessary means (especially financial means) |
| WH | out of, or by means of which |
| WH | light rowboat for use in racing or for transporting goods and passengers in inland waters and harbors |